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My mother found this in a trinket shop is curious about its meaning - would there be a Chinese native speaker kind enough to translate this? Thanks in advance!
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Quint
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My mother found this in a trinket shop is curious about its meaning - would there be a Chinese native speaker kind enough to translate this? Thanks in advance! | ||
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
The top line says something like: Chinese industry tea company Second line is like: blah blah tea manufacturing. Maybe a place of manufacture? | ||
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3Form
United Kingdom389 Posts
Made in Zhaoliqiao Tea Brick Factory For reference this is a tea brick The company is now state owned. Apparently it was founded in the 1930s. http://www.teachina.com/index1.aspx If anyone needs an interpreter or translator my girlfriend is available! | ||
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Tufas
Austria2259 Posts
On November 18 2012 08:21 3Form wrote: If anyone needs an interpreter or translator my girlfriend is available! I would be careful if I were you, some might take up that offer you so happily extend on behalf of your girlfriend. | ||
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
On November 18 2012 08:21 3Form wrote: China Tea Company Made in Zhaoliqiao Tea Brick Factory For reference this is a tea brick The company is now state owned. Apparently it was founded in the 1930s. http://www.teachina.com/index1.aspx If anyone needs an interpreter or translator my girlfriend is available! is she free next saturday? | ||
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On November 18 2012 09:42 felisconcolori wrote: A tea brick stamp. That's really cool, and could be pre-Communist days. Something that would be interesting to research the history on, I think. Looking at all the stars, I doubt it. | ||
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3Form
United Kingdom389 Posts
On November 18 2012 09:10 Tufas wrote: I would be careful if I were you, some might take up that offer you so happily extend on behalf of your girlfriend. It was a roundabout way of extending credit where credit was due, thanks for setting the funny boys off though  More seriously are we sure it's a stamp? It could just be that back then they wrote right to left instead of left to right? | ||
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Redmark
Canada2129 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On November 18 2012 10:01 Sufficiency wrote: Looking at all the stars, I doubt it. Stars have been a common symbol for awhile. But that's why I said "could be" - would have to research the history of that company and how their logo has changed over time. Edit: So I was kindof interested, and did a little bit of digging. (Google-fu at it's best.) If you check this interesting tea blog you'll see something of that design - only a very very small part of the design, but it looks fairly distinctive and like it could match. (The blog is about a mystery brick of black tea.) It guesses at a date of 1950s - 1970s for that design with that name, and that the stamp is likely on tea bricks for export. Based on how the blogger describes the state of the chunk of tea brick she encountered, I'm going to think that maybe you have a brick of tea, not a stamp. Second edit: This link actually has a tea brick that shows that exact pattern, whole, at the very top of the article. And it matches the image you posted exactly. Last edit, I promise... So, apparently a brick of tea described as "vintage" bearing that logo (it was the obverse image on the brick, while the reverse showed a different pattern) was recently bought on eBay for $75.00. I had no idea there were tea snobs that could rival or even surpass wine snobs. | ||
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ieatkids5
United States4628 Posts
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TOloseGT
United States1145 Posts
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